Bill Spiers
Milwaukee Brewers 1989–1994; New York Mets 1995; Houston Astros 1996–2001
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 114 | 373 | 345 | 44 | 88 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 21 | 63 | 10 | 2 | .255 | .298 | .333 | .631 | 78.3 | 79.4 | .293 | 0.8 |
| 1990 | 112 | 389 | 363 | 44 | 88 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 16 | 45 | 11 | 6 | .242 | .274 | .317 | .591 | 62.4 | 65.8 | .273 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 133 | 464 | 414 | 71 | 117 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 54 | 34 | 55 | 14 | 8 | .283 | .337 | .401 | .738 | 107.7 | 106.2 | .337 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .313 | .353 | .438 | .790 | 125.8 | 123.3 | .363 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 113 | 386 | 340 | 43 | 81 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 29 | 51 | 9 | 8 | .238 | .302 | .303 | .605 | 66.3 | 65.8 | .283 | -0.1 |
| 1994 | 73 | 237 | 214 | 27 | 54 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 19 | 42 | 7 | 1 | .252 | .316 | .308 | .625 | 61.7 | 60.1 | .289 | -0.2 |
| 1995 | 63 | 87 | 72 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .208 | .314 | .264 | .578 | 60.2 | 57.7 | .274 | -0.1 |
| 1996 | 122 | 242 | 218 | 27 | 55 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 26 | 20 | 34 | 7 | 0 | .252 | .320 | .390 | .709 | 90.5 | 92.9 | .315 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 132 | 355 | 291 | 51 | 93 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 48 | 61 | 42 | 10 | 5 | .320 | .438 | .481 | .919 | 150.3 | 145.9 | .413 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 123 | 437 | 384 | 66 | 105 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 45 | 62 | 11 | 2 | .273 | .356 | .396 | .751 | 105.3 | 101.2 | .343 | 1.9 |
| 1999 | 127 | 444 | 393 | 56 | 113 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 47 | 45 | 10 | 5 | .288 | .363 | .389 | .752 | 93.1 | 90.2 | .342 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 124 | 409 | 355 | 41 | 107 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 49 | 38 | 7 | 4 | .301 | .386 | .392 | .777 | 99.1 | 95.0 | .354 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .833 | 67.3 | 117.2 | .298 | 0.0 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-06-14 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2000-07-23 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1991-09-20 | MIL @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2000-07-09 | KC @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1997-05-21 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.